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What a complete spit in the face of their users. If you work at robinhood, take a look at your company values and know that they are willing to wipe out any of those during investor pressure.
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Citadel runs robinhood transactions and Citadel bailed out the hedgefunds.

The house(Citadel) always wins.
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There’s already a trend in certain high schools where kids start doing competitive programming, hackathons, blog writing, etc. way before university starts. By the time they’re college freshmen they’re ahead of the average new grad already when it comes to interview skills. These kids end up interning for FAANG or unicorns in freshman or sophomore year. There’s thousands of them.
What upsets me is the fact that selling isn't halted. If only buying is halted, it's obviously going to cause the stock to plummet. Retail investors who bought AMC, GameStop, Nokia, or Blackberry are going to fear losing a lot of money and sell. If everyone does that, the stock price decreases. It's obvious manipulation in favor of hedge funds shorting the stocks. I really hope Robin Hood gets hit with a class action lawsuit. I don't want to sound greedy because I'm losing money, but the way this is being dealt with is beyond unfair. Losing money for a stupid decision is fine by me, but joining a movement like this and having it shut down by force is absolute bullshit. How can hedge funds be allowed to manipulate the market but we can't come together to fight them?
That’s selective quoting. The study states in the abstract the top selling drugs saw price increases. Here is the full abstract.

> The results show that the average annual price of top-selling cancer drugs in 2006, adjusted for inflation and secular changes in drug prices, have increased by US$154 and US$235 for branded and competitive brand drugs, respectively, following the 2010 ACA; however, generic oncology drug prices showed no significant changes.
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That's what makes it seem achievable.
This hit mainstream this week. There are people out there now buying stock based on a Reddit thread because they think it will get them some quick cash.

I am pretty much in like with the OP in that this is definitely paternalism, and I have no idea if it's good or bad. People were going to get screwed because of this, but I don't think Robinhood or other online trading apps stopped buy's to protect these people.
Oh I know you didn't I was just pointing out the parallel to the point being made. :) Similarly the majority of people trading options are gamblers.
Because a product is at its peak ultimate performance on release day, and nothing can ever be done to improve it from that point forward?

This is what people who don’t get OTAs don’t understand about OTAs. The car gets better every month. Literally faster acceleration, longer range, quicker braking, tighter suspension, fuller featured, more useful and overall more fun. Every month, just like magic.

Versus tradition auto which forgets you exist as soon as you make the down payment, and if you want something better you have to buy the latest model.

Free upgrades to your car and always having the latest model features is actually really freaking cool. Then they go further an even support 1st party hardware upgrades for late model vehicles to get the newest MCU or AP hardware, which is also unheard of in the industry.
Who do you think those shares are being sold to? Robinhood's brokerage side is restricting trades, but their exchange (the "shadow" exchange they use to make money without charging commissions) is still allowing buy orders, or else they have effectively suspended GME on their exchange and have to route the sell orders elsewhere. Again, it is not possible for an exchange to only allow selling of a stock, because every share sold is a share someone else is buying.
Not only them. I just got an e-mail from Tasty Works saying they're doing the same. And that it's out of their direct control.
WhatsApp pushes you to upload your encryption keys to the cloud by default. Therefore, in its default configuration it is not end to end encrypted. Even if you don't do this, you have no idea if your contacts have.
For the sharps bin a diagram or icon would be useful.
When Wall Street is making billions off of selling balloon interest mortgages with no income verification the position is "The consumer is an adult and can make decisions for themselves and read the fine print.... blah blah blah .. personal responsibility."

When the people are causing Wall Street to lose billions on their absurdly large short position, suddenly they are concerned for the "amateur" investors. The "unsophisticated" investors. "We need to save them from themselves, we have to do something, they don't know what they are doing! How could they possibly be responsible adults taking this position that is hurting us financially? I know! Let's strap on these training wheels for their own good so they cannot hurt themselves cough or us cough. "
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Everything that's happening is just reminding of the Big Short, Flash Boys and generally what Michael Lewis has been saying
I also did a few Google searches and am no closer to figuring out who this is supposed to be :(

For what it's worth, I agree with you that we shouldn't rush to judgement. While its certainly possible in this particular case that there was genuine misconduct, quite often there is a simple misunderstanding.

As an anecdote, during my graduate work I had a fellow PhD candidate convinced his guide was out to sabotage his work, because it 'threatened' to overthrow the guide's long established model. He was convinced that the work of the prior student's work that clashed with his was fudged, and that the PI was covering it up. It is possible? Sure, but not very likely. It's a tad convenient when the people you disagree with also happen to be mustache twirling villains.

I've seen a general trend with young academics at the beginning of their scientific career. They tend to be exuberant, convinced of their own superiority. Until that point, they've tended to be the smartest person in the room, the pick of the lot from among their peers. Hit graduate school, and suddenly everybody around you is just as smart as you, but that appreciation takes a few years to sink in. When your experiments don't work, it's hard to digest and easy to imagine the other guy cutting corners. I'm not suggesting that this is what happened with the top level comment, but could explain many of the other comments I see here.
There is a saying that if you're not paying for a product, you are the product.

Robinhood's real customer, the paying customer isn't the users of its app, which they offer out for free. It's actual paying customers are HFT firms, and specifically Citadel, the same Citadel that on Monday bailed out Melvin Capital with a 3 billion dollar loan.

Wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out Citadel called up Robinhood and said either shut this GME trading down or they're pulling the plug.
> Not everyone buying GME today understands the social movement /r/wsb angle.

I mean read the top comments in the top WSB posts today. It ain’t about sticking it to the man. It’s about making money, fast.
Thank you for the detailed reply.

On the one hand, yes, it's a hard problem, on the other hand, if you think about how much a modern video game does 60 times per second, it's not that hard anymore.

That said I agree with a lot of your points and I totally get why it is this way. It's just sad that it's mainly due to business reasons.

I think part of it that video conferencing is too cheap/free. It's just a bad business to be in.
Robinhood’s actual customer is Citadel. Citadel was funding the short sells, investing directly into Melvin Capital, for example.

Robinhood did not act against its customers. Its users are their product, which it sells to Citadel. As you see now, this is way more than an edgy quip: when its free you are the product.
I'm not surprised there's a rational explanation for their action that doesn't involve collusion with investors holding short positions; I'm just surprised it's legal. As for liability, they're definitely getting sued for the one-sided stop. Do you know if that suit could have any merit?
I think RH can probably hide behind the excuse of "We thought it was a pump and dump scheme and tried to cool down the market". I'm not certain this isn't, somewhere in its core, a pump and dump scheme, even if the majority of people buying seem to be honest in their intentions.
Lost this customer! They canceled my literal 4$ but in gme, which was more of a statement than an investment on my part.
And c) They are more likely to be entrepreneurs themselves, so they have some experience to share.
I imagine UBI would be good for landlords.
> simple one line changes can have profound and unexpected changes in correctness and performance. Small contributions typically required hours of my time to properly test and validate them.

Isn’t this a simple case of not having a good enough test suite?
But there are tons of overpriced stocks out there. Where do you draw the line? TSLA? AAPL? S&P 500?
I like the concept of the tab sidebar, but I can't get over having tabs in a different location. Even though I'm fully aware that I have more horizontal screen relestate than vertical, I never remember to use the sidebar.

I've wanted to use tab groups for a while, but it never stuck because of the UI. I'm hoping this helps, and I love that they offer a sidebar layout, too.
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I've worked with a few university programs that help some students sidestep these issues by wrapping entrepreneurship opportunities inside of their course load. Students use much of their junior and senior year time working on business plans, pitching investors, and trying to get their businesses started. It's a great model for leveling the playing field.

Anecdotally, local entrepreneurship circles are absolutely full of young people from wealthy backgrounds who think they're going to leverage their parents' connections and capital into personal riches.

They almost all fail the same way: They focus too much on quick-flip opportunities and the get-rich-quick schemes. They view entrepreneurship as collecting capital from investors and giving it to contractors to produce a business for them. They don't actually want to grind out years of work to get a business off the ground. They burn out after a year or two.
Sure. Even more so a safety net allows for entrepreneurship. My parents are not wealthy but they have always had a large enough home and enough extra income that I knew if I needed to move home and live when them I could comfortability for 3 months or more.

I'm not much of an entrepreneur risk taker anymore but every time I've had to make a difficult risk decision in the past I knew the absolute worst case scenario was that I would end up broke living in my parents basement. It's carpeted so it never seemed that bad.
I think this falls more in the category of "being rich is actually better than being poor", of which there are an equal number of articles that routinely pop on the frontpage.
And Citadel is responsible for 40% of Robinhood revenue and oh surprise Citadel is in the hole on the money sunk into Melvin.
"Robinhood got about 40% of their revenues from one of the hedge funds that just took a dive on Gamestop. Highly recommend an investigation. This smells like collusion to protect the rich insiders."

https://twitter.com/mindmeld_me/status/1354807424998281217
Love how often these comments just boil down to straight denial. "This couldn't possibly be happening!"
Toyota is not in any way shape or form operating at anywhere near the same level on the energy side as Tesla. When it comes to electric cars and technology, Tesla absolutely is eating Toyota's lunch despite Toyota having been in a better position a decade or more ago. The Model 3 took a bite out of Lexus' sales. Electric cars are the future. That cake is already baked.
Also the "fork" option. If you want the source, pull the official source, but there are plenty of projects where people should not be creating their own copy that is on equal footing as the authoritative repo.
> Healthcare and Basic Income would do a lot to encourage entrepreneurship

Would it though? From what I understand EU has way better social safety nets, yet much smaller entrepreneurship rates compared to USA.

Counter-intuitively, limitations drive innovations. When your resources are limited, you are forced to innovate. When you have infinite resources, you tend to waste it. Ever notice that when you have infinite time, you waste it doing nothing, but when your time is extremely constrained, you tend to use it much more effectively? Same thing happens with companies and money. Read: NASA, Texas Instruments developing laser guided bombs, etc.

For example, because TI had such a limited budget for developing laser guided bombs, they couldn't afford a wind tunnel like their defense-contractor competition. So they dropped scale models of bombs into swimming pools and performed mathematical transformations on the measurements. TI's design ended up being far more innovative and outperformed their money-flush competitors[0]

All that said, I think there is some truth to what you say. If healthcare were decoupled from employers, I would be much more likely to leave my current company and start my own since that is one thing holding me back.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paveway
Accurate observation, and useful response. /s
Risk analysis and sophistication are in no way orthogonal to gambling. They are hallmarks of gambling at the highest levels. Horse handicapping among horse racing gamblers is extremely similar in every form to the stock market. Even "simple" games like poker have extraordinarily complex risk analysis schemes at the highest levels and you can listen to all sorts of stuff in the World Series of Poker broadcast commentary alone.
Simple, the hedge funds can buy it from you at a steep discount, that way the can close their short positions for massive profit.
Telegram was banned in Russia. The founder was forced out of his own billion dollar company in Russia because he wasn't "in" with the Kremlin.
Schwab, Fidelity, and others now offer free trades on equities and ETF’s, so if that’s all you’re doing, there’s no reason to stay. That said, RH still has the best fee for options trading ($0.00 vs $.65 for Schwab/Fidelity).
> g to insulate these people from losing their money will actively make people lose money. The dip to the low $130 was directly caused by the actions they're taking.

> But on the flipside, imagine w

Due diligence and disclosing your position is not "market manipulation". Mainstream media wants it to look like that. Even the DFV, who spearheaded the GME position got a lot of flack early on.
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Someting like PlantUML's Salt https://plantuml.com/salt

but that could produce complete screens and not just sections of screen.

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Any suggestion?

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I was under the impression that it was mostly the mobile GPUs that supported blending a large number of planes at scanout time. I've written software for random ARM SoCs where there were a dozen planes or so that you had to program the ordering and bounds of. The first was typically the default framebuffer, another was the cursor, two were the outputs of the hardware video decoders, and the rest were up to the application developer to use.

The big desktop GPUs seem to only have the standard framebuffer, a cursor plane, and a small number (<= 2) of overlay planes. It seems that the general consensus is that they tend to have such a ridiculous amount of horsepower that rendering everything into an output buffer and displaying that won't even kick the GPU out of its idle power state.

That being said, I had a few hours of fun hacking glxgears and glmark2 to render into the cursor plane on Wayland.
but thats literally not how the laws in the US works. The fact thats it going to a foreign country gives the FBI less restrictions when it comes to intercepting that communication.
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I'm using the definition of someone who has been professionally developing software for 10+ years.

So I'm comparing someone who has been professionally developed software on a different stack for 10 years compared to someone who has developed software on an identical stack to yours for 1-2 years.
> RH could legitimately be trying to protect their users from what is basically a pump & dump scheme

Considering that RH's business model has benefited from getting people excited about gambling on volatile stocks, I highly doubt they would be motivated to protect their customers from pump & dump.
Nice to see it being used in frameworks other than Rails

Would be great to see someone to do a rewrite of an SPA using Hotwire, haven't come across anyone making the switch yet
I have been away from my primary employer for about a year and they are HUGE with many different teams that do many different things in many different ways. I just try to gel to the team and not be disruptive.
Multiple online brokers had outages this week and blamed volume. Whether or not it should be possible, it seems possible.
There is no evidence to indicate they had naked shorts. They were most likely short, but not naked short.
This may be another genuine but ridiculous question, but...

I think "the wrong people are losing money" is right on point, and to be clear, I don't think Robinhood has any business stopping people from buying stocks if they want to. But I am really wondering about how many people are getting rich from this stock pop. When the dust from all this settles, aren't a lot of the folks buying the stock over the last week or so going to end up underwater? My assumption has been that they saw that as an acceptable price for a jolly time Sticking It To The Man. And, back in the long ago (e.g., last week) when the stock price was $20 or $30 a share, that makes sense if you have the money to burn. But at $200+ a share, what's the rationale for holding on?
I really love the way they do home buying. Basically no-interest, but also no opportunity for mortages. The bank owns the house until you've completely paid it off.

I looked a little but couldn't find a longer article explaining it in more detail, but it should be easy enough to search out for interested parties.
When I see articles like this I think back to Neo4j, when we adopted the product the enterprise features were open source, which turned out to be a long con bait and switch, enterprise features are now closed. We rewrote our app using another DB and are closely watching more recent entries into the GraphDB space such as Agensgraph ( a new apache project) built atop postgres.
Never mind the 99% (a guess here) of successful people that are not "entrepreneurs" but wealthy, successful.

Unless we are only talking about Bill Gates.
> Asking the maintainer if you are allowed to provide a fix is an option?

It is (or should be) a standard practice to file an issue on the repo and ask there before starting work.
Healthcare is decoupled from employment in a number of countries, but barriers to entrepreneurship remain high, sometimes even higher than in the United States.
If they target the first type, won't there be TWO competitors where there used to be a monopoly? Shouldn't prices then come down? As to the second type, just because there's an oligopoly doesn't mean competition will ensue and prices must drop. Look at the insane price on insulins.

I suspect their intended mission is to cover their costs with only a modest profit and thereby drive down prices where they are most inflated.

Given the proliferation of people like Martin Shkreli and companies like Purdue, there's a lot of pharmaceutical fruit out there to be pulled down and made low hanging once more.
Hedge funds made millions off this move by Robinhood. As soon as this information became known - and they would be the first to know about since they would've game planned this out - they would've loaded up on put options and front-run retail investors who were getting stopped out of their position due to cascading liquidations. What a tremendous transfer of wealth from retail to institutions that we witnessed today.

It's fairly interesting to see the cultural response to this, and it doesn't seem to divide down the usual left/right political lines which is a relief after years of constant fighting. I wonder if this might be a driver of more political harmony in the coming months.

I also wonder how much of all this is due to a social media vacuum created by the end of Trump's tenure and his removal from social media. The timing of this GME episode lines up pretty well with that hypothesis.
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> Now refactor a gui ... without OO

made me chuckle — that’s my day job! Check out RamdaJS btw
Did they get subsidies from the state for manufacturing there or just the same EV subsidies everyone collects? The EV credits are collected by companies who don't even manufacture in the US, let alone California.

Moving out of the Bay Area California makes a ton of sense for a manufacturer. I'm just happy they are keeping manufacturing in the US.
> reframed the debate around technical goals, instead of around basic morality.

So framed from the military intelligence perspective, where capability is prioritized over intent.
From what you describe, brokers are protecting the retail investor? Awesome, I can feel free to make any speculative decision and they will protect me from myself if it goes south. Where can I sign up to one of these brokers that guarantee I am safe?

I disagree with your assessment, these brokers are preventing purchases of these stock, there is no risk for the broker in this regard.
It _was_ deleted. Maybe she undid it in the meantime.
Ah, testicles.

Copy and paste to avoid the referral-based content.
They have blocked 7/10 most mentioned stocks in r/wallstreetbets from being purchased. It isn't just Robinhood, also Revolut and others. Then they launched a short attack, with nobody willing to buy besides themselves, they tanked the stock.

It doesn't get more obvious than this.
Well, we are discussing market manipulation. Which can be considered a conspiracy crime, right?
WSB Discord had an auto-mod, but their claim was that it was circumvented with people alternative characters to post slurs.
Because people don't only invest in stocks because of the "fundamentals", they invest in people and hype and all sorts of other reasons.
GME could issue shares and get a large cash infusion into its business.
GME could sell some of its shares to get a large cash infusion into its business.

Their market cap 19x'd up to ~19B. Having a 1B cash infusion into the business isn't crazy. Imagine what 1B of investment into Gamestop could achieve.
> But no way anyone sincerely believes GameStop is worth $400/share.

In February 1997 AAPL was worth 15 cents per share. You could have overpaid by 100x at the time and you'd still be up 9.4x after 24 years (not counting dividends), which is an annualized gain of almost 10%.

Maybe Ryan Cohen taking a big stake in Gamestop is their Steve Jobs moment, who knows?

Disclosure: long GME
I immediately parsed the name as "ARP I/O". Then wondered if you were IPv4 specific.
I agree with you. But it is also much higher friction to invest large sums in lotteries. Casinos feel the more apt analogy.